The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-24
0'BRIEN SHOT AT.
A Narrow Escape at Hamilton,
Canada.
BULLETS USED AS ARGUMENTS.
A Leaden Messenger Sings in the
Irish Editors Ear-The Driver
of the Carriage Shot.
O'Brien

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day delegation from Rochester, headed
by DIR. W. R. Casey, a prominent
Lacquer, called upon Mr.. O'Brien
From Buffalo there came Father
Patrick Cronin. of the Catholic Union
and Times, and James Mooney, ex- pres
dent of the Irish National League, of
America. Many visitors from Hamil-
ton and other points, headed by several
well-known citizens and clergy
men, called upon Mr.. O'Brien. who
remained in his room. all day.
O'Brien said to correspondents that al
though greatly exhausted and scarcely
able TO speak above his breath, he was
determined upon gong to the hall to-
morrow. His friends are alarmed AT
this decision, not because of their fear
for another attack there, although such
an attack is considered probable, but
because the mere journey itself and the
fact of making another speech are likely
to overpower him and imperil his life.
1t is said by some enthusiasts that
strong body gourd of stalwart men
will be organized in Buffalo and will
accompany him. Mr.. O'Brien, how
ever, does not approve of this, as he
does not think there will be any need
for such a step. His friends have a
positive opinion to the contrary, but
they will do nothing without his
sanction. He goes from Hamilton to
Montreal, where an open air meeting
will be held.
NIAGARA FALLS. May 23.-OBrien
arose this morning so weak as to be al
most unable to stand. However, he in
sisted on leaving for Hamilton by the
no bro to al.
forty miles from Hamilton, and it is
understood to-day that bodies of
Orangemen intend to make descent
from the larger city upon Hamilton and
join with local Oraugemen in making
an attack on MIR. O'Brien's life. The
NatiOnalists will be organized this time
and Mr.. O'Brien approves the idea that
they should be, and that outside aid
should be sent to Hamilton, which will
now probably be done by friends in
Buffalo and other Irish centers.
HAMILTON, Ont May 23.-O'Brien's
reception here threw every thing that has
occurred up tC the present time IN the
shade. AS he was helped out of the car,
his eyes rested upon such an
extraordinary sight as SAID by citizens
not to have been seen in this town IN
many years. There, under the scorch-
ing rays of the sun. with their hats off,
were a vast body of stalwart man,
packed so slosely together that passage
could not be made for some time. In
vain did Mr.. Kllbride anu his other
friends try to make way and stop shak- !
ing hands with Mr.. O'Brien.
Finally the procession of carriages |
moved and proceeded to the Royal |
Hotel, saluted with cheers along tne !
whole route. A ms citing was held at |
o'clock in The Palace Rink on Jackson |
Streat, about a mile from the hotel. |
Outside the hotel a large crowd |
had gathered, only few of whom
were anttO 'Brienites. O'Brien begged |
the indulgence of the audience on &C
count of his condition, and proceeded |
to speak with such force as he had, COW
ering in main the same ground which |
he has heretofore covered in his speeches. |
After Mr.. O'Brien sat down, Chairman |
Read read cablegrams of sympathy |
from Mccarthy, Sexton, Healy, Dillon
and Biggar
George Collins, an Englishman who
also addressed the meeting. astonished
the audience by the bitterness of his
attack ol Lord Lansdowne. Frederick
Union, j. II. Raey and Edward
Williams, all Englishmen, and William
Berry, an Orangemam, made speeches,
after which aaresolution condemnirg
Lord Lansdowne was passed. A crowd
of several hundred collected in Jackson
st. opposite the Rink, just as was the
case at Kingston, while the meeting
was going on. They were Orangemen,
but the chief of police drove them away
and allowed no one to stand on a block
What he did probably prevented riot,
for had there been any attack, the men
who met 0'Brien at the depot in the
forenoon, and who were on hand in
hundreds, marching up and down one
.ide of the street, would have done ter-
rible execution. O'Brien'S body guard
IN Hamilton was an organized reality.
All was well up to this, but the worst
was 10 come. Another attack was made
upon O'Briep, this inc with Fl Q
arms, and again there was marvellous
escape. This escape, however,
wrist in one of O'Brien's faithful COM
panions. O'Brien was sitting down
after having made vigorous speech,
IN return for a vote of thanks passed,
and Dennis Kilbride was on his feet
engaged in a like task. Just then a
man was observed on the platform
leaning over and whispering some
thing in o 'Briens ear 1t was noticed
hat Brien shook his head as though
n dissent. The man persisted. Half
If the audience now rose to their feet, =
oeering over each others heads and
anxiously striving to catch a glimpse ,
Of what was going forward on the plat
orm. 5
The chairman tried to quell the anxi- :
,tv by asking the audience to hear MIR.
Nilbride, but the crowd of 1000 people, ,
2rimed with angry feelings that have
asted since two successive attempts on
)'Brien at Kingston and Toronto, were
Tot easily quieted down. They had
noticed that the man whispered to {
} 'Brien, and they were evidently deter
mined to see what it meant. The man
gain made silent appeal, whatever it {
vas, and again Mr.. O'Brien shook his
aead. Still one more appeal was made,
and this time Mr.. O'Brien seemed
% acouiesce. The first sign of '
was when Nj. O'Brien got
lp and left the platform. This was in